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not attached to any one court or one prince. Rather, he received income in various ways, such as in giving music lessons to aristo...
opium. The drug, too weak to kill, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by strange visions. His sensations...are translated ...
used two themes, which were contrasted by the composer within a homophonic texture. In other words, the fugue depended on theme ...
goes that Beethoven was inspired by the principles of the French Revolution and, specifically, the person of Napoleon Bonaparte in...
motive over and over again in different forms (Grove 149). The lyrical second theme introduces a brief respite of relaxation, bu...
Marx, but he does not dismiss the idea that the movement has something to do with the Orpheus legend. Rather than Orpheus soothing...
This paper examines two of Beethoven's works and explores the keys in which they were written as well as additional information. B...
In ten pages this nineteenth century artist's life and art are the focus of this report with his music in paint Romanticism the pr...
a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...
codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...
the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...
like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...
melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...
society normally associates with music (Bowen 9). While Bowen admits that this hypothesis may appear to be overstated, he points...
through the performance of ecclesiastic music because of their contributions within that context. Johann Sebastian Bach pro...
To understand why this is so important, one must understand that before the Baroque period, music mostly consisted of ballads...
time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...
babies shown abandoned testifies to the fact that many of the women were mothers who were separated from their children. A red rob...
disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...
the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...
sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...
the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...
al). Middle quartets: In the middle-period works, his fully mature form is evident, as Beethoven pushes the boundaries of Classi...
what the loss of the deceased means to those who have been left behind, while he simultaneously acknowledges the glory of the afte...
through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...
Joy" to music during his early years in Bonn, which would mean that he was considering the basis for the Ninth as early as 1792 (L...
the "almost terrifying" manner in which Beethoven pursues the underlying motif (Machlis, 1970, p. 225). The second movement, And...